But it is more than that, as Alex Trentor said so wisely, “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
#Kinovea the golf club full
As BJ Leroy teaches in his IMPACT course “24 hours/1 day = 1440 min 12 players/2 hour practice = 1440 minutes – Coincidence? I think not…”Īlso, your 10 minutes of talking at the start of practice to 12 players totals two full hours of practice time. What a player can do on their own during the other 110 min of a practice is what makes an athlete excel, not what they do while the coach is watching them individually. One coach + 12 players in 120 minutes = an average of just 10 minutes of attention/feedback per player. This is important in the math of learning in a team sport. The research clearly shows, as do my parenting experiences over a quarter century, that giving them hints, but never the rule, made my players able to problem solve without me. I could tell, and the research backed it up, that they were becoming more independent in competition and remembering my stories and their solutions better. Help Your Players Solve Their Own ProblemsĪs time went on, I began to increase my guiding of the player’s discovery of the answer. Perhaps it even seems to some players that I don’t know the answers as I repeatedly question and guide discovery with them, rather than preaching to them. To combat this, I have long studied the Socratic methods of coaching (questioning/exploring) over that of sophism (debating, convincing). It pains me to see players err, then quickly turn to the bench to get the “answer” or feedback from the coach, showing they cannot problem solve on their own. Checking retention takes patience, which too many coaches only have in short supply. Retention shows something is learned, not simply being able to do it the same day as it is “learned.” This area of motor learning has not been studied as long as same-day testing of what is acquired. This classic form of coaching of, “Do this as I am the coach” is the worst remembered and does not develop the player’s ability to problem solve novel situations.
The worst is extrinsic, as in when a coach simply tells a player what to do. In the see/do/tell loop of a simple motor-program loop (as in goal/skill/feedback), the best form of feedback is intrinsic. Most coaches who have taken IMPACT learned that a coach’s feedback/feed-forward is the most important form of changing an athlete’s skill set. The reason is largely the focus of this blog. The thing is, a 2007 study showed that the latter increased shot accuracy in novices and experts alike.
“Focus on the swing of your club.” There might have been that, too.
#Kinovea the golf club pro
Focus on the swing of your arms… I can hear my golf pro telling me that.